Vandals uproot trees at Bond Avenue Park

UPPER DARBY — Vandals ripped out almost 100 of the 225 newly planted trees at Bond Avenue Park over the weekend.

Volunteers and township employees planted the trees on Nov. 2 and they were pulled out Nov. 10, officials said.

Mayor Thomas Micozzie and police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said the project was funded with a $10,000 environmental grant from the Philadelphia Horticultural Society.

“The Parks Department men recovered most of the trees that were thrown into the Naylors Run Creek,” Micozzie said. “They replanted them, but now we have to see if they’ll take. I want to find the people who did this.”

According to Micozzie, the trees were planted all along the creek in the park to prevent flooding and for aesthetics.

“It looks like vandalism,” Chitwood said. “It’s a shame. The trees were planted along the creek to make it look nice and to prevent flooding. This is just plan evil to rip out the trees.”

Anyone with information on the vandalism can contact Upper Darby police at 610-734-7677.